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So will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. -Ezek. 34:12.
And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.-Jer. 32:38. At evening time it shall be light.-Zech. 14:7.
Volume XXXIV. Anderson, Ind., U. S. A., Thursday, March 5. 1914. No~ 10.
BEYOND TODAY.
If we could see beyond today
As God cal!!. see;
If aU the clouds should roll away,
The shadows ilee,
O'er present griefs we would not fret,
Each sorrow we would soon forget,
]'01' many joys are waiting yet
]'01' you and me.
If we could know beyond today
As God doth know,
Why dearest treasures pass away
And tears nlUst :flow;
And why the darkness leads to light,
Why dreary paths will soon grow bright;
Some day life's wrongs will be made right,
]'aith tells us so.
"If we could see, if we could know,"
We often say,
But God in love a veil cloth throw
Across our way;
We can not see what lies bo.£o1'e,
.And so we cling to Him the more,
He Ieacls us till this life is o'er;
Trust and obey.
-0. Lottise Bell.
WHAT IS YOUR EXCUSE1
BY PINA WINTERS.
What is your excuse for not being a Christian?
Aire you stanc1i11g aloof and criticizing otb.ers
because they do not 6Kactly come up to your
ideal of Christianity? Take heed to yourself,
for your example of unbelief may be keeping
many others out of the kingdom of heaven. It
is your privilege and duty to give to the world
a true example of Christianity.
Everyone may serve God, if he will, no mat­ter
what his circumstances in life may be. Every
sinner who has heard of Jesus ChriSt has an ex­cuse
for not being a Christian, but not one of
those excuses will be sufficient in the day of
judgment.
One person complains that he is poor,can
hardly keep the" wolf from the door, " and how
can he find time to spend for the Lord or how
can he give· ofIlis scanty earnings Iortlie spread
of the gospel? One thinks if he were only rich,
he eould serve God easily, and do great good in,
the world. Ahother, because of afflict~onain
body, thinks he can not serve God, for he. ha~
no faith for healing and thus he could not glorify
God. .
Let us COIlsider the poor beggar-Lazarus-­whose
diseased body was laid at the gate of the
rich man, where his soul took its flight for the
regions of the blessed. Whatever else he may have
lacked in his personal make-np, he did not lack
wisdom, for" they only are wise who- trnst in the
Lord. " If that poor geggar, sorely. afflicted in
body and possessing not one earthl)" comfort,
could be faithful unto death; what excUSe have
we whose circumstances in life are so much
more favorable?
A backslider says, "If it had not been for
So-and-So, I might now be prospering in my
soul, and might have accomplished great things
for God ; but he "was such a hindrance to me
that I became discouraged. That person stands
between me and the Lord." Oh, sad state of
affairs! If this be true, then ' l tha.t person' ,
:is nearer the Lord than you are. It is the privi­lege
of everyone to live near to God, for he
is no respecter of persons. And do you know
that)f you will to serve '"God and are faithful,
no-human being has power to separate you from
him? (' Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or per­secution,
or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword ~ For I am persuaded, that neither
death nor liie, nor angels, nor principalities, nOr
powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor height, nor c1eI)th~ nor any· other' creature,
shall be able to separate us from the love of
God, which is in Christ J esns onrLol'c1" (Rom.
8: 35, 38, 39).
Paul, as he neared the close of life, said, "!
have fought a good tight, I have finished my
course, I have kept the faith" (2 Tim. 4: 7).
Did Paul have any diffi.culties to surmount in
his Christian path"vay? Listen· to his testi~
mony in a letter to the Corinthians:. ~'Of the
Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
Thrice was I beaten with· rods, once was I
stoned, thrice I suffered ship\vreck, a night and
a day I ha.ve been in the deep; in jonrneyillgs
often, in p'erils of waters, in perils of robbers,
in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils .by
the heathen, in pecilsin the city, in perils in the
wilderness, in perils .in the sea., in pe~ilsamol1g
false brethren; in \veariness and painfulness, in
watchings often, in hnnger and thirst, in fastings
often, in colJ and nn.kedness, Beside those thinga
that are with 0 llt, that which cometh 1 upon me
daily, the care of all the churches" (2 Cor. 11:
~~ t"28).
If Paul's exan1ple of £aithfHln~ssthrou~h mani­fold
temp~atiollS is not ~uffici~i\t .t890l1nteract
you"!? 8:¥:G}1se fo;t',;I:1Qt l).eip.g<l 'P\ri~'tli~~f' tlien con­sider
th~. Gaptail}! 'Qf Q~1q:!s~l:g~lr~1~~·. "who wa,s
made "perfect through sufferings" (Heb. 2:
10). "]'01' in that he himself hath suffered
being tempted, he is able to succor them that
are tempted" (Reb. 2: 18). Jesus was ' (in
all points tempted like as we are, yet without
sin" (H-eb. 4: 15). No human being's sufferings
Or burdens canever ~qual those of Jesus Christ,
yet he continued faithful to the. end. .
. Thus it is possible for every one to serve GoJ
:faithfully and gain heaven after death, regard­less
of his earthly surroundings, if he W'lill." If
anyone misses heaven, he must blame himself.
Oh, that every soul wouid become dead to the
things of this world and alivB unto God through
J€SUS Christ our Lord!
• I •
WHAT IS SPIRITUAL PROGRESS ~
Where there is spiritual life, there is growth
and progress. In nature there is a period where
growth ceases, and dooline of strength and vi­tality
begins and continues until our physica.l
is wasted away : but not so in our spiritual life;
"The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree .
. . . . They shall still bring forth fruit in old
age; they shall be full of sap and green."
The growth in grace and knowledge of the
Ohristianlife should be marked in every indi.
Vidual. It is impossible to be spiritually healthy
and vigorous and stand still. vVe must progress
'continually. This will not be a diftlcult and
unpleasant task, but as natural as life, if we
keep spiritual. As. in nature, so in grace, where
the ·nQrmal attitude is maintained, there will be
the adjustment of every difficulty encountered,
and progress, will. be manifested. There are
many things to be overcome, but· the effort and
exercise in this respect will only increa.seour
spiritual development. This is as true with.the
people of God collectively, as it is indiv.idually.
We shall never grow outof grac'e, but in grace.
The boundless expanse of heaven's grace affol'.-:ls
abundant room to grow on and on; not out and
beyond. the blessed old Bible, butmore and more
into, its glorious depths of light and truth. Some
oouls have erroneously thought they could pro­gress
. beyond the. Bible, but snch a spiritnal
condition is not progression, but deception. The
more spiritual one is, the more the truth oLthe
Bible becomes illuminated to the soul.
Spiritual progress, then,. means to grow out
of aU error and human tradition into all truth;
out of our illc1ividual understa.r1c,1ir;tgof the past,
where we have been shortoftlie proper concep­~
iol1 of trntll,:intothemoW~i}?el'£ect knowledge of
,s,pirit~t;¥l ~l;lingS;;'~JFJ)I~~t~d;.more out of ourselves
and ~nto Q~"n.'.~S't., .. " 'N J. W. B.

So will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. -Ezek. 34:12.
And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.-Jer. 32:38. At evening time it shall be light.-Zech. 14:7.
Volume XXXIV. Anderson, Ind., U. S. A., Thursday, March 5. 1914. No~ 10.
BEYOND TODAY.
If we could see beyond today
As God cal!!. see;
If aU the clouds should roll away,
The shadows ilee,
O'er present griefs we would not fret,
Each sorrow we would soon forget,
]'01' many joys are waiting yet
]'01' you and me.
If we could know beyond today
As God doth know,
Why dearest treasures pass away
And tears nlUst :flow;
And why the darkness leads to light,
Why dreary paths will soon grow bright;
Some day life's wrongs will be made right,
]'aith tells us so.
"If we could see, if we could know"
We often say,
But God in love a veil cloth throw
Across our way;
We can not see what lies bo.£o1'e,
.And so we cling to Him the more,
He Ieacls us till this life is o'er;
Trust and obey.
-0. Lottise Bell.
WHAT IS YOUR EXCUSE1
BY PINA WINTERS.
What is your excuse for not being a Christian?
Aire you stanc1i11g aloof and criticizing otb.ers
because they do not 6Kactly come up to your
ideal of Christianity? Take heed to yourself,
for your example of unbelief may be keeping
many others out of the kingdom of heaven. It
is your privilege and duty to give to the world
a true example of Christianity.
Everyone may serve God, if he will, no mat­ter
what his circumstances in life may be. Every
sinner who has heard of Jesus ChriSt has an ex­cuse
for not being a Christian, but not one of
those excuses will be sufficient in the day of
judgment.
One person complains that he is poor,can
hardly keep the" wolf from the door, " and how
can he find time to spend for the Lord or how
can he give· ofIlis scanty earnings Iortlie spread
of the gospel? One thinks if he were only rich,
he eould serve God easily, and do great good in,
the world. Ahother, because of afflict~onain
body, thinks he can not serve God, for he. ha~
no faith for healing and thus he could not glorify
God. .
Let us COIlsider the poor beggar-Lazarus-­whose
diseased body was laid at the gate of the
rich man, where his soul took its flight for the
regions of the blessed. Whatever else he may have
lacked in his personal make-np, he did not lack
wisdom, for" they only are wise who- trnst in the
Lord. " If that poor geggar, sorely. afflicted in
body and possessing not one earthl)" comfort,
could be faithful unto death; what excUSe have
we whose circumstances in life are so much
more favorable?
A backslider says, "If it had not been for
So-and-So, I might now be prospering in my
soul, and might have accomplished great things
for God ; but he "was such a hindrance to me
that I became discouraged. That person stands
between me and the Lord." Oh, sad state of
affairs! If this be true, then ' l tha.t person' ,
:is nearer the Lord than you are. It is the privi­lege
of everyone to live near to God, for he
is no respecter of persons. And do you know
that)f you will to serve '"God and are faithful,
no-human being has power to separate you from
him? (' Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or per­secution,
or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword ~ For I am persuaded, that neither
death nor liie, nor angels, nor principalities, nOr
powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor height, nor c1eI)th~ nor any· other' creature,
shall be able to separate us from the love of
God, which is in Christ J esns onrLol'c1" (Rom.
8: 35, 38, 39).
Paul, as he neared the close of life, said, "!
have fought a good tight, I have finished my
course, I have kept the faith" (2 Tim. 4: 7).
Did Paul have any diffi.culties to surmount in
his Christian path"vay? Listen· to his testi~
mony in a letter to the Corinthians:. ~'Of the
Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
Thrice was I beaten with· rods, once was I
stoned, thrice I suffered ship\vreck, a night and
a day I ha.ve been in the deep; in jonrneyillgs
often, in p'erils of waters, in perils of robbers,
in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils .by
the heathen, in pecilsin the city, in perils in the
wilderness, in perils .in the sea., in pe~ilsamol1g
false brethren; in \veariness and painfulness, in
watchings often, in hnnger and thirst, in fastings
often, in colJ and nn.kedness, Beside those thinga
that are with 0 llt, that which cometh 1 upon me
daily, the care of all the churches" (2 Cor. 11:
~~ t"28).
If Paul's exan1ple of £aithfHln~ssthrou~h mani­fold
temp~atiollS is not ~uffici~i\t .t890l1nteract
you"!? 8:¥:G}1se fo;t',;I:1Qt l).eip.g